Frontiers in Coastal Observing Systems
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 4156
Special Issue Editor
Interests: experimental oceanography; biological oceanography; fluorescence; technological development; marine low-cost technologies; primary production research
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is an urgent need to develop integrated coastal observing systems to strengthen our planning capacity toward a sustainable blue economy while fostering the protection of marine coastal ecosystems also in order to face climate change occurrences. In fact, the integration of advanced monitoring and predictions is essential to deal with future scenarios, providing important tools to manage extreme events, marine pollution, climate change. and related impacts on marine ecosystems and the services they provide. Innovative coastal observing systems enable the adoption of an ecosystem-based approach required by marine protection policies (MSFD, HD, WFD, MSP, ICZM) and international strategies to achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and to provide solutions to solve users' problems. In this context, the socioeconomic and environmental problems of coastal areas, increasingly threatened by human activities and highly vulnerable to climate change impacts (sea level rise, huge storms due to increased intensity in winds and waves, etc.) are considered a priority in most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, many of the existing GOOS programs (ARGO, DPCP, GO-SHIP, OceanSITES, SOOP) are focused on open ocean waters and do not cover coastal and shelf areas which require extensive monitoring. For all these reasons, the development of sustained, multidisciplinary, integrated coastal ocean observing systems is a priority challenge, as is the need to improve observation capabilities, high-resolution models, remote sensing and multilayer GIS datasets.
This Special Issue will explore and share innovative investigations on coastal observing systems, including the state of the art of current technologies for sensors, platforms, and data transmission, especially low-cost technologies; integrated sensor networks and observatories, including early-warning systems to mitigate climate change and human impacts on marine and coastal systems; high-resolution coastal modeling; marine pollution prediction models and climate prediction scenarios; remote sensing and GIS for mapping and monitoring coastal marine areas; and applications and analyses of marine coastal processes which enable ecosystem-based and multidisciplinary approaches.
Prof. Dr. Marco Marcelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coastal observing systems and networks
- cost-effective technologies
- oceanographic sensors
- new marine coastal platforms
- data transmission systems
- coastal marine ecosystems
- sustainable coastal management
- early warning systems
- GIS
- coastal modeling
